New policies in school´s instructional capacity

Howley and Howley’s (2005) article about promotion of high quality teaching in rural areas explores the impact of professional development on the teaching practice. The field research was sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), from the United States of America Department of Education. This paper explains the use of certain academic linguistic conventions such as special terminology and discourse markers.
To begin with, policymakers will be defined as: people who are responsible for the choice of a plan of action to follow in relation to a course of studies. This includes the goals to achieve, the educational values and the profile of the graduates.
Thus, in order to achieve these objectives, policymakers implement professional development instruction programs for teachers, which involve setting out educational policies and special arrangements to ensure high quality teaching-learning practices.
Furthermore, student achievement refers to measurable and effective results in the acquisition of educational knowledge by students. This concept involves the accomplishment of explicit goals stated in the course curriculum.
With regards to discourse markers, the ones that appeared in the text will be listed, according to their function:
- Constrast: however, nevertheless, but, despite, alternatively, (even) though, arguably.
- Structuring: fist, second.
-Adding: furthermore, in addition, moreover.
-Logical consequence: because so, as a result, because of, logically, grounded in (...).
-To introduce examples: for example, as (...) suggests.
- Summing up: in conclusion, after all.
-Degree: somewhat.
- Parallelism: at the same time.
-For emphasis: clearly, in fact.
When Howley and Howley (2005) contend that “Grounded in management approaches (...) improvement strategies involve educators (…) an ongoing process of assessment and classroom level reform” (Data-based improvement section), they basically refer to the theoretical background that supports this research study.
All things considered, this paper indicates the political concern to foster core competence in educators. Clearly, it aims at promotion of skills development that improves teaching competence in order to increase student’s achievement of educational goals. The use of specific vocabulary and discourse markers in the paper exemplifies its purpose.














Reference
Howley, A., & Howley, C. B. (2005). High-quality teaching: Providing for rural teacher’s professional development. The Rural Educator. Retrieved August 15, 2009, from
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